Eastern Europe’s growth potential in 2008 remains massive, attracting retailers and developers to the region. In a polarizing retail environment, growth prospects depend on the specific sector and market. In CEE’s major conurbations the transformation has accelerated at breakneck speed mostly driven by hypermarket and shopping centre development. In 2007 CEE’s retail market as a whole was worth a massive X179bn, equivalent to half the size of the German market and slightly less than half that of France, and had grown by 56.4% over the 2002-07 period. Retailing in Central & Eastern Europe 2008 is a new report published by Verdict Research that provides extensive analysis on the growing CEE retail market including insight into the dynamics of the market and authoritative analysis of the leading retailers. It also identifies the key issues in the market and highlights the main opportunities and threats going forward.
Published: September 2008 - Eastern Europe. |
